Those who used Visual Assist with Visual studio has experienced one of the powerful features, called Symbol Navigation (this is not the debug symbols). i.e we can search for functions, variables, classes etc. in the workspace very easily. Those who haven’t tried it yet, please try Alt+Ctrl+S (this key is default) with Visual Assist.

In the new version of Visual Studio supports navigating to functions, classes or whatsoever structured information in the workspace. With Visual Studio 2010, it also helps us to find the symbols in the windows and MFC header files as well. See the screenshot below, I searched for OnTimer function and it display OnTimer function with all associated classes. We can also opt only for the internal items (in the current workspace) by checking the box available at the bottom.

Even it’s a powerful feature, as the most other intelli-sense features it’s working very slow. The initial search is costly but it’s nice to get something useful without spending additional bucks.

BTW, you can pop-out this dialog using Ctrl+,

See the screenshots below